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hey I'm Kareem levy and i'm eric franklin and welcome to rumor has it the show where we round up the week's biggest tech rumors and vote on what sounds likely and what's probably not true at all and remember that you can vote on all of the rumors too so keep your eye out for the poll in the interactive player if you're watching on cnet up first according to the wind beta forums windows 8.1 would allow you to bypass the touch base Metro interface to effectively boot to the desktop apparently one of the reasons windows 8 isn't selling very well is because the OS currently boots directly to metro and that's a bit scary for people most of us fear change and don't want to be forced into learning something new yeah it's like when we were supposed to switch the metric system because every other country uses it and it's intuitive but then nobody wanted to learn it so now we're stuck with inches just don't next up not to be outdone by everybody in the universe Microsoft is now rumored to be working on a SmartWatch of its own the wall street journal reports that Microsoft has us suppliers in Asia to ship components for a potential touch-enabled watch device this isn't the first time Microsoft has tried its hand at the SmartWatch game a partner with fossils watch in suunto to create smart personal objects technology or spot watches in that key no it's really not and neither is this whole SmartWatch trend we've already had several rumors none of them has come out yet and I already don't care yeah but once all the cool kids start using their smart watches and syncing them with their smart phones and your tablets then you'll care stopped knowing me so I'll that's what she said in the Bible up next a patent document that came to light recently shows that Apple might be working on a convertible MacBook ipad hybrid and what really sets it apart is that this device could be charged wirelessly that and also all the fanboys will lose their minds and have to have one now patent applications don't necessarily mean the product is being worked on last year Tim Cook basically said that computer tablet hybrids are dumb and we'll probably make you fat you didn't actually say the fat part on the other hand apple also said it wouldn't make a smaller iPad but we have the ipad mini now true i think that apple will make a laptop hybrid eventually Apple would never buy pass an opportunity to enter a struggling market and try to do something better yeah it's kind of like when I see a little kid playing basketball and I grabbed the basketball and I dunk on him like in your face Billy do you really do that Oh what do you guys think will Apple make a laptop hybrid don't forget to vote and leave a comment and we'll check in with the cnet council the cnet council is composed of five editors who cast their votes anonymously their opinions are not an endorsement by cnet or CBS interactive obviously because these are rumors folks and the cnet council's verdict is no they do not think an apple hybrid tablet laptop is imminent however one editor said he would love for them to do that's our show everybody please share your rumors at rumor has it at cnet com or call us at 1 800 750 cnet and tweet us thanks to this week's co-host Eric and we'll be off for a couple weeks because I'm getting married one more line oh sorry that was it can we do oh it is good haha well this seems like you're getting married I'm gonna go and tune in here Gary hello it's got away how was that okay you